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Those of you who have characters familiar with sigils and runes (Vincent and Moth, mainly) will automatically know the absorption rune the Queen is talking about. It's the same rune the Grit boy used to absorb a soulstone into himself to get more powerful.

It is also the same rune that one could, theoretically, draw on oneself in order to absorb a soulstone, and thus gain strange and awesome powers.